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has caused the Debian Bug report #865960,
regarding warning: Could not rename //.gdb_history-gdb26953~ to //.gdb_history
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Package: gdb
Version: 8.0-1
Severity: normal
Simply starting and quitting gdb shows messages like this:
[marek@cacao:/]$ gdb
...
(gdb) quit
warning: Could not rename //.gdb_history-gdb26953~ to //.gdb_history: File
or directory not found
So, it seems that GDB tries to create the history file in the current
directory instead of $HOME; running GDB from /tmp does work.
Providing a line in ~/.gdbinit
set history filename /home/....
makes the warning go away, so this configuration seems mandatory now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_AT:de (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gdb depends on:
ii libbabeltrace-ctf1 1.5.2-1
ii libbabeltrace1 1.5.2-1
ii libc6 2.24-12
ii libexpat1 2.2.1-1
ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.2+b1
ii libncurses5 6.0+20170408-1
ii libpython3.5 3.5.3-3
ii libreadline7 7.0-3
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20170408-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
Versions of packages gdb recommends:
ii libc6-dbg [libc-dbg] 2.24-12
Versions of packages gdb suggests:
ii gdb-doc 7.12-2
ii gdbserver 7.12-6
-- no debconf information
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I can't reproduce the problem. GDB doesn't automatically save history
files, so you probably have something in your .gdbinit instructing it to
do so. It's hard to say without more information.
I'm closing this bug now because it seems like it's a local
configuration issue, but feel free to reopen it if it's still
applicable.
Thanks,
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